Throughout his short, innovative, and emblematic prose and throughout his charismatic, alluring, poetic works, author Edgar Allan Poe, by his use of witty, verbal irony and rich, vivid imagery, develops and creates a story and style of suspense, which he further uses to not only entertain his audience thoroughly, but also to portray and demonstrate the recurring theme of horror and vengeance. Although Poe may have suffered a devastatingly painful and melancholy life, if he had not, it is indisputable that his works would never have impacted the literary world or readers as substantially and decisively as they do now. However, because of his infinitely precious and invaluable loss, the literary world and readers gained the genre of both detective